{
  "id": "2024-09-27-indiana-university-bloomington-power-outage",
  "slug": "indiana-university-bloomington-power-outage-2024-09-27",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Indiana University Bloomington",
    "shortName": "IU",
    "state": "IN",
    "type": "public-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "IU Notify",
    "enrollment": 47000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2024-09-27",
    "type": "power-outage",
    "cleryCategory": "advisory",
    "headline": "Power outage, September 27, 2024",
    "summary": "On the morning of September 27, 2024, [downed power lines along 13th Street](https://www.idsnews.com/article/2024/09/power-outage-downed-lines-bloomington-iu) just north of the Indiana University Bloomington campus prompted two IU Notify alerts and a street closure. About 303 customers southwest of campus lost power, and 13th Street reopened around 2:20 p.m. EDT after lines from Walnut Grove to Woodlawn Avenue were cleared.",
    "outcome": "13th Street reopened around 2:20 p.m. EDT; roughly 303 customers lost power. No injuries reported.",
    "resolution": "confirmed-threat"
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2024-09-27T09:45:00-04:00",
      "channel": "sms",
      "verbatimText": "IUB emergency: There are downed power lines on campus near 13th St from Walnut Grove to Woodlawn Ave. Avoid the area. For available information and updates on this dangerous situation visit emergency.iu.edu.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://emergency.iu.edu/rave/index.html?page=12&campus=iub",
      "sourceDescription": "IU Emergency Rave feed (IU Notify SMS text)",
      "annotations": [
        "Cascade expansion from official emergency.iu.edu Rave feed page 12 (IUB downed power lines, Sep 27, 2024).",
        "IU Notify SMS wording is longer/distinct from contemporaneous @IUpolice TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURE X post."
      ],
      "characterCount": 207,
      "timestampApprox": true
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2024-09-27T09:45:50-04:00",
      "channel": "twitter-x",
      "verbatimText": "TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURE \n@IUBloomington: 13th Street is closed between N Woodlawn Ave and N Walnut Grove St. for a power line that is down. Please avoid the area.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceDescription": "@IUpolice on X (verbatim 13th Street power line closure)",
      "annotations": [
        "Full text from official @IUpolice; newline after TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURE preserved",
        "The downed lines ran along 13th Street from Walnut Grove to Woodlawn Avenue, just north of campus."
      ],
      "characterCount": 161,
      "sourceUrl": "https://x.com/IUpolice/status/1839662737749639384"
    },
    {
      "sequence": 3,
      "type": "update",
      "timestamp": "2024-09-27T10:11:00-04:00",
      "channel": "sms",
      "verbatimText": "IUB final update: 13th St. is closed to traffic from Walnut Grove to Woodlawn Ave. Continue to avoid downed power lines. Duke Energy has outage info https://www.duke-energy.com/outages.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://emergency.iu.edu/rave/index.html?page=12&campus=iub",
      "sourceDescription": "IU Emergency Rave feed (IU Notify SMS text)",
      "annotations": [
        "Cascade expansion: Rave feed SMS includes “from Walnut Grove to Woodlawn Ave” and trailing period, longer than @IUpolice X abbreviation of same update."
      ],
      "characterCount": 185
    },
    {
      "sequence": 4,
      "type": "update",
      "timestamp": "2024-09-27T10:11:10-04:00",
      "channel": "twitter-x",
      "verbatimText": "IUB final update: 13th St. is closed to traffic. Continue to avoid downed power lines. Duke Energy has outage info https://www.duke-energy.com/outages",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceDescription": "@IUpolice on X (verbatim)",
      "annotations": [
        "Full text from official @IUpolice final update (street still closed)",
        "Labeled an update, not an all-clear, because the street remained closed and roughly 303 customers were still without power."
      ],
      "characterCount": 150,
      "sourceUrl": "https://x.com/IUpolice/status/1839669113175576638"
    },
    {
      "sequence": 5,
      "type": "all-clear",
      "timestamp": "2024-09-27T12:23:30-04:00",
      "channel": "twitter-x",
      "verbatimText": "13th Street is no longer closed. Resume normal activities.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://x.com/IUpolice/status/1839702416737841445",
      "sourceDescription": "@IUpolice on X (verbatim)",
      "annotations": [
        "Verbatim all-clear from official @IUpolice reply/update ending the 13th Street power-line closure."
      ],
      "characterCount": 58
    }
  ],
  "context": "On the morning of September 27, 2024, [downed power lines along 13th Street](https://www.idsnews.com/article/2024/09/power-outage-downed-lines-bloomington-iu) north of the Indiana University Bloomington campus prompted IU to issue two IU Notify alerts: one at 9:48 a.m. EDT telling people to avoid the area, and a second around 10:10 a.m. EDT saying the street had closed to traffic. According to the [Indiana Daily Student](https://www.idsnews.com/article/2024/09/power-outage-bloomington-duke-energy), about 303 customers southwest of campus lost power, with Duke Energy estimating restoration by 5:15 p.m. The street reopened to normal traffic around 2:20 p.m. EDT after lines from Walnut Grove to Woodlawn Avenue were cleared. The case shows how a localized infrastructure failure on a campus edge generates a short cascade of advisory-level notifications focused on routing people away from a hazard rather than sheltering them.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Downed power lines on 13th Street prompted two IU Notify alerts on the morning of September 27, 2024",
    "About 303 customers southwest of campus lost power; 13th Street reopened around 2:20 p.m. EDT",
    "The alerts focused on hazard avoidance and routing rather than sheltering",
    "All three @IUpolice alert texts (initial, update, and all-clear) are confirmed verbatim from official X posts, with per-alert sourceUrl links"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "@IUpolice 13th Street reopened (X)",
      "url": "https://x.com/IUpolice/status/1839702416737841445",
      "type": "official-social"
    },
    {
      "title": "@IUpolice 13th Street final update - X",
      "url": "https://x.com/IUpolice/status/1839669113175576638",
      "type": "official-social"
    },
    {
      "title": "@IUpolice 13th Street power line - X",
      "url": "https://x.com/IUpolice/status/1839662737749639384",
      "type": "official-social"
    },
    {
      "title": "UPDATED: 13th street reopens following downed powerlines, 98 customers still without power Friday - Indiana Daily Student",
      "url": "https://www.idsnews.com/article/2024/09/power-outage-downed-lines-bloomington-iu",
      "type": "student-newspaper"
    },
    {
      "title": "UPDATED: 240 customers regain power just south of campus - Indiana Daily Student",
      "url": "https://www.idsnews.com/article/2024/09/power-outage-bloomington-duke-energy",
      "type": "student-newspaper"
    },
    {
      "title": "IU Emergency Rave feed (IUB power-line alerts)",
      "url": "https://emergency.iu.edu/rave/index.html?page=12&campus=iub",
      "type": "official-archive"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "power-outage",
    "indiana",
    "infrastructure",
    "downed-lines",
    "advisory"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-05-28",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-19",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}